Wall tablet. Marble. Cartouche in marble with pinkish tinge. Black oval inscription tablet is framed in a wreath of leaves and ribbons, surmounted by a coat-of-arms; either side two cherubs, one blowing a pipe and the other holding an hour-glass. The whole cartouche mounted on swags. Incised white-painted lettering.
M.S. HEN: WHITE Gent oriundi ex familia vicu hunc (ultra certain temporis Infcriptfione) habitante, Qui non inutili curiofitate, p varias, Angliae partes confupta juventute, maturioris aetatis factus domum redyt, ut tam experientiae suae, q innatae indolis indigena participles faceret, quibis, dubium eft utru plus boni contulerit ex placida & honesta converfatione, seu indefefsa charitate, hifce modis vitam omnibus jucundam protulit ad Anu caelibatus sui 72. Tres Fratres, duas sorores: superftites, omnes quib notus erat, inaeftos reliquit. Praefertim HEN FRAN IOHAN WHITE Nepotes qui hoc Monumentum Gratitudinis suae pofuerunt. Defiderari caepit 18 Nov 1677
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